Abstract: A pool stick for training billiards players to not rotate the pool stick during a pool stroke. The pool stick comprises an elongate body and an endmost shooting tip. A guide portion of the body adjacent the shooting tip is laterally offset from the shooting tip and from the remainder of the body. When the pool stick is slidingly supported by a frontmost hand of the pool player on the guide portion and by a rearmost hand gripping the body opposite the guide portion, any rotation of the pool stick during a pool stroke occurs along an actual axis which extends from a pair of movable points, one in the rear body portion at the rearmost hand and one in the guide portion at the frontmost hand, which actual axis does not pass through the shooting tip. This allows a pool player to visually detect any rotational movement by observing lateral rotational movement of the shooting tip about such actual axis relative to the guide portion and to other references such as a billiard ball.